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At the reptile show I did this weekend, a new dragon owner told me that a breeder told him to put his dragons in the refridgerator for a couple of hours to induce cool down.....

I don't know about the rest of you, but that seems very, very risky to me.....refridgerator temps are 40 degrees and below so I would never think that was safe.

Anyone else ever heard of this?

Personally I don't induce cooldown anyway, I let them decide, but this idea seems way out there to me.....
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Tracey
Tracey's Beardies
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Never heard of such a stupid thing as that! LOL I sure as heck hope nobody ever takes that advice!
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Lisa
Cricket free babies!
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Hi
i know some people do it wiht 0ther kind of reptiles ,never heard they do it for beardies .
i think he only can get very sick.
i think that guy whomtold it you can better cool down in a fridge for 1 houre heheheh
yep like aztec is saying hope nobody wil folow that advise of that guy .
byeeeeeee

I know for snakes you can EUTHANIZE(sp?) them by placing them in the fridge.
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0.0.2 Bearded Dragons(Ziggy and Stardust)

But is that very humane?

Makes you wonder about the ideas some have, huh?
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Rob Talkington

Collared lizard breeders (except for me LOL) buy small wine type refridgerators, and put collareds in for a few months during winter, brumation, to induce breeding in the spring.

This is especially important, for males, to be able to breed. They also say it increases the longivity of their life.

I do brumate mine, at room temp around 70 (my choice) they sleep just as well in my opinion. Because their normal temp are 100- 105 .

I do it my way because some breeders do have collareds die during this process ! Most do NOT, but a couple always do every year.

I'm not willing to lose my pets even for breeding

Alot of species are brumated this way in refridge !
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Eve

The only time I've ever heard of this was a breeder who lived in TX--since it is hot where she is year round, she rigged a large fridge with a thermostat (like making your own incubator) and induced cooldown that way. It was nowhere near 40 degrees though. I think she even rigged a lighting system in there.
That is the only way I'd think of putting dragons in the fridge to brumate. LOL.
Dana

Yeah, that sounds a little off the wall and pointless. I have heard of snake breeders brumating snakes in fridges. I would imagine that they live in very warm areas and dedicate a fridge for this purpose that can be set at warmer than normal fridge temps. Anyway, sounds like a bad idea for dragons.
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Bill DiFabio
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www.classylizard.com

of it for beardies, though I did know some people rig up special "fridges" for brumation of other species at higher than normal fridge temps....

I even clarified with the guy who told me this and he said the guy told him to put them in his regular refridgerator....

The guy had just bought 2 of my nicest beardies, and of course, being how I am....I said "do that with mine and I'll hunt you down"....and laughed of course, he had no intention of following that guys advice, but since he's fairly new at the beardies he thought he ask me about it.....
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Tracey
Tracey's Beardies
www.beardiecrazy.com

Well, I induced a brumation in a beardie because I have big wooden cages that I can't really move and I needed to really clean them. Only, I used a laptop case and put a different beardie in each section (two were already going on their own, I just removed them from the cages so I could clean.) I stuck them in a closet. It was colder then the rest of the house, but I don't think it was ever below 60 degrees. You could just as easily induce brumation by putting them in somewhere dark.
I have heard of doing it with snakes though.
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